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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jonathan P. Duvick, Des Moines, IA (US);
Yogesh Kumar Sharma, Maryland Heights, MO (US);
Assignee:
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., Des Moines, IA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/529 ; C12N 1/582 ; C12N 1/16 ; C12N 1/20 ; A01H 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/529 ; C12N 1/582 ; C12N 1/16 ; C12N 1/20 ; A01H 5/00 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to creating or enhancing disease resistance in plants. The invention provides isolated maize Rac nucleic acids and their encoded proteins that are involved in the altering the disease resistance pathway in plants, increasing transformation efficiency, inducing programmed cell death, and modulating the oxidative burst in a plant. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, transgenic plants, and antibody compositions.